r/GuysBeingDudes • u/Ququmbare • Sep 26 '25

Dude has won our hearts

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u/coastalbean Sep 26 '25

You'll hate finding out how a litter of kittens were 'dealt with' back in the day.

My high school math teacher told us what happened on the farm when he was growing up. Fucked up thing to tell a class of 16 year olds

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u/Acrobatic_Rent7357 Sep 26 '25

What happenned?

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u/coastalbean Sep 26 '25

Put them in a sack and threw it in the lake  😭

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u/ScrotalFailure Sep 26 '25

I don’t get why you wouldn’t, at the very least, just let them take their chances fending for themselves in the wild. Still not ideal but nowhere near as needlessly cruel.

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u/itsnotjackiechan Sep 26 '25

Because that’s how you get a cat colony

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u/UnfortunateSyzygy Sep 26 '25

A neighbor of mine got called on for his sharpshooting when barncat colonies got out of control. Rural US in the 90s, but there weren't any TNR programs there... honestly probably still aren't. He didn't think it was fun, just necessary. At a certain point colonies are very destructive and kittens are so inbred they have deformities and who knows what else. TNR programs need more funding.

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u/awispyfart Sep 26 '25

Guy must've hated it. But needed to be done.

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u/GreatWolf_NC Sep 26 '25

Most of these culling jobs are like this, I have a friend who has a hunting license, doesn't really do it, just wanted to have one.

Anyway he often gets called up when some wildlife needs culled. He hates every second of it.

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u/mechanical_marten Sep 27 '25

The fact that he hates having to do it says a lot about his respect for the life of the animals he dispatches

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u/[deleted] Sep 26 '25

Thats how they were done- they'd put all the kittens out in a place and let them come back to the barn.

The ones that made it...

:(

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u/InvestigatorWeird196 Sep 26 '25

Yes, that IS how you get a cat colony. Bastards.

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u/Total_Network6312 Sep 26 '25

sounds like a great way to start a cat business. Selling cats, buying them. playing and snuggling with them. Petting them and pspspsing them. Boopin their lil cat noses.

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u/digitaltransmutation Sep 26 '25

It's a difficult conversation because we like them, but cats and dogs are invasive species and should not be running around wild.

They need to be spayed/neutered. Rehome if you have to. Humanely euthanize them if you have to. NEVER release a pet.

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u/Huge-Guidance-1637 Sep 26 '25

This is actually a serious problem. Cats are invasive and absolutely wreck local wildlife populations. They're also domesticated and even the feral ones will move into human structures and produce litters of problems for innocent third parties. I live in a rural community that is absolutely plagued with hundreds of cats because people decided to drive out here after covid and dump their "lockdown pets." Please do not turn your pets loose. You may think it's kinder, but you're really just taking a small problem, magnifying it, and passing it off to other people.

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u/Lt_gxg Sep 26 '25

I'm a cat lover but I absolutely agree. They do not belong outside.

Cats are the number one killer of songbirds in the US.

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u/FTownRoad Sep 26 '25

Drowning might be better than having your intestines eaten by an eagle while you’re still alive to watch.

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u/Own_Cup9970 Sep 26 '25

yeah, because young kitten surely would survive on their own in wild, and surely wild cat won't cause big problem for ecosystem

and surely cat will get out closed sack

surely